Audio/Video Screencast Lecture by Aeronautics Professor. Did you know that 1 slug = 32 lbs? This lecture is done on the iPad, saved a a video and posted online. This way students can review it anytime and play it over and over again, whereas a classroom lecture is a one shot deal! How good are your students at taking notes?
Mastery Learning - Take the quiz as many times as you want. The highest score will be recorded, that way you can use the quizzes to review of the mid-term without losing your highest score. No, it will not tell you what the right answer is or which one you got wrong. You just get your total score. Your job is then to go back and check the readings to find out the information that you missed and try again.
Final Project or Final Exam: The goal of the study strategies class is not only to have the students learn the strategies that they need, but to have them apply these strategies to a college level class, other than the study strategies class. I find that students can do this by teaching other students. Therefore, I give them a case scenarios, where they have to teach another student the study strategies for another course. To facilitate this, I have them write a journal each week. I can comment on the journal and redirect, if need be. I am not looking for a study guide in Math, for example, but a cognitive process on how to study math, using the strategy of the week. At the end of the course, the get to use their journals to write a 5 - 10 paper that is a study strategies guide to a specific college course.
With this new update to Google Image Search, users now can search for images by licensing rights under the " search tools " which is in the front page.
Here's what I used to welcome students back to class after Spring break. You can have lots of characters. Great way to provide study tips or have multiple "tutors" giving help. This free tool is at http://www.voki.com
Customizable Talking avatar
Use text to speech and just type in what you want to say, as the example above. Or try your hand at recording your own voice as in this example to the right.
Create your own talking animation or have students create theirs and have them mail it to you. It comes as a mp3 file that you can then upload to your LMS if you want to share it with the class. Here is one made by my friend, Claire Brooks, in Australia.
Organizational Structure
Lecture Anyone?
Website Reading: It (Sometimes) Does Happen
http://www.nngroup.com/articles/website-reading/App used is called Explain Everything $2.99.
Discussion: Where Class Happens!
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/creating-a-sense-of-instructor-presence-in-the-online-classroom/
Final Project or Final Exam: The goal of the study strategies class is not only to have the students learn the strategies that they need, but to have them apply these strategies to a college level class, other than the study strategies class. I find that students can do this by teaching other students. Therefore, I give them a case scenarios, where they have to teach another student the study strategies for another course. To facilitate this, I have them write a journal each week. I can comment on the journal and redirect, if need be. I am not looking for a study guide in Math, for example, but a cognitive process on how to study math, using the strategy of the week. At the end of the course, the get to use their journals to write a 5 - 10 paper that is a study strategies guide to a specific college course.
Strategies to Minimize Cheating Online
San Serif = Legibility
Update from usability expert, Jakob Neilson. Note: he is still talking about legibility.
Serif Fonts
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/web-typography.html
An example of a sans serif sign and what the problem is with readability.
http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-sans-serif-typefaces/
educatorstechnology.com
With this new update to Google Image Search, users now can search for images by licensing rights under the " search tools " which is in the front page.
Adding Multimedia
Student photo - notebook for 3 online classesTutorials for Jing - Free download
http://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-jing.html
Russell shows us how he uses Jing.
http://www.techsmith.com/jing-uses-alytapp.html
June 1, 2014 updated tutorials for JING
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.html
Here is a "live" video that I do for my online class. This way they can see me in action. I think it helps them with their attention span.
Several ways to add student questions to You Tube videos.
One site provides the option of graphing the results.to class after Spring break. You can have lots of
characters. Great way to provide study tips or have
multiple "tutors" giving help.
This free tool is at http://www.voki.com
http://www.xtranormal.com
by my friend, Ilene Frank, retired librarian, University of Florida, Tampa
Brinthaupt, Fisher, Gardner, Raffo, MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 7, No.4, December 2011: